The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.” — Julie Fisher Copy Share Image
I knew a bit about 'Emma' through the book when I was younger, but actually more from 'Clueless'. — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites. — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
“God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried… — Ashley Scott Copy Share Image
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image